Simultaneously Beginning and Ending

The bile rises through the trenches of my lips shut so tight as I think of you

Man so beautiful, I thought to be mine

I own nothing for you

No more body

I owe nothing to you

Scars inside and out

A lack of emotion pierces the air

A stench so putrid a child washes away in the coming weeks

I wish to be cleansed of this world along with him

Don't know why you wanna come here so bad

I ain’t got shit for you it's so bad

But my people whisper invisible tales into my hair as the braids extend by the border of a putrid

land where my enemies have been cultivated

All is territory

All is taken

Nothing left for me to lie in

No space for you to cry in

Boxed in and surrounded

The corners of a wall grow as small as me

Knives come flying from holy pockets

Men with guns at the ready at the tap of your broken screen

A broken heart permeates the body you refuse to leave

Still want to live in

A dry oasis to reside in

No peace to die in, too much pride in the sacrifices of me and mine and

This can't be my end yet

Photo © Daria Kruchkova